Since 2000 and until CM 11, Caixa Mágica had developed the installer / configurator (lucas/licas/xLucas/xLicas) from scratch and shared the base with SuSE.

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The new versions share Mandriva framework (Installer and Configurator and core RPMs). It is not entirely the same code since we are committed to core technologies that are not in Mandriva roadmap like Apt,.... Read the LetterToTheCommunity about the moving to Mandriva (portuguese).

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The Caixa Mágica versions 12, 14 and 15 shared the Mandriva framework (Installer and Configurator and core RPMs). It was not entirely the same code since we were committed to core technologies that were not in Mandriva roadmap like Apt,.... Read the LetterToTheCommunity about the moving to Mandriva (portuguese).

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Although there are several CM payed developers in the development process but it has always being open to contributions.

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From Caixa Mágica 16 onwards we decided to move to a Debian core distribution, using mainly Ubuntu as the package base.

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Although there are several payed developers in the development process, Caixa Mágica has always been open to contributions.